Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 2 | My minute will be burnt , or composted , or trodden down into mulch , into humus , into peat , into soft coal , into hard . |
| 3 | or going down into Ipswich with your mum and coming up with grandpa . |
| 4 | we can maximise the space if you get in that leg room of about one millimetre or lie down on people 's laps and then we can build or may be even lie down on |
| 5 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 6 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 7 | The tendency in the past has been to restrict or cut down on plant proteins and increase animal protein in the diet . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 9 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , there are some pretty primitive creatures driving around with money in their Torpedoes and Boomerangs , or sitting down with money at the Mahatma or the Assisi , or just standing there with money , in the shops , in the pubs , in the streets . |
| 11 | Or melted down for soap . |
| 12 | Then he went over to the window , and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court for several minutes , frowning and pushing his lower lip up alternately . |
| 13 | He went over to the window and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court . |
| 14 | Ilbrec turned and gazed down at Fand . |
| 15 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 16 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 17 | Go and sit down with daddy please . |
| 18 | Slightly irritated he thinks that there is something wrong with the lock and goes down to reception for assistance . |
| 19 | Light fittings : Remove covers , tubes or bulbs and bring down to ground level unless an access platform is used . |
| 20 | The crested helmet of the warrior gleamed in dawn sun and he turned and rode down on Tallis . |
| 21 | The natural cycle by which organic wastes are returned to the soil and broken down into humus presupposes a balance between soil , plants , and animals . |
| 22 | The graphs are un-cluttered and broken down into time , weight and distance categories . |
| 23 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 24 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 25 | Some genuine truths have been reduced to cant and passed down without explanation . |
| 26 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 27 | She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work . |
| 28 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 29 | That would be a very good thing , she shouted back , but her inner self did n't agree and , muttering under her breath at her unruly self , she pushed unanswerable questions to the back of her mind and got down to business . |
| 30 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |